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Gerben Zaagsma

Gerben is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Research Area Digital History & Historiography at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg.

Resources

  • From the Archival to the Digital Turn: A Lesson on Source Criticism

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    Have you ever reflected on the origin and authenticity of a historical source that you retrieved from the web? This lesson offers insights into how the practice of applying source criticism has been affected by the digital turn. What are the new questions that historians should ask of digitised and digital-born historical sources, and what new skills should they master to be able to answer these questions?
    Authors
    • Stefania Scagliola

  • David Boder: From Wire Recordings to Website

    EN
    Understanding how digitisation of legacy data and digital technologies involved in those processes is key for a critical appraisal of digital history. This lesson examines the transformation of information from analogue to digital, using a collection of wire-recorded interviews conducted by psychologist David Boder in 1946 as a basis.
    Authors
    • Stefania Scagliola